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Associated Motion

Conlangery Podcast

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The Role of Associative Motion in Language Description

Sislogative and translocative are what I typically use in my own languages, just because that's the terminology normally used in North American language description. It is very common for associated motion prefixes to be also used as directional prefixes on verbs of motion. So if you have a verb like return, it might take cis-locative, which means return here, or it might take the translocative and mean return there. But some language descriptions don't always make a good effort to distinguish those two senses.

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